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TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 



mering of the wood-peckers, the metalHc notes 

 of the uraponga, the full tones of manakins, the 

 cry of the hoccos, jacus, &c. The more numerous 

 are the humming-birds*, buzzing like bees round 

 the flowering shrubs ; gay butterflies fluttering 

 over the rippling streams ; numerous wasps flying 

 in and out of their long nests hanging suspended to 

 the trees; and large hornets (morimbondos') hovering 

 over the ground, which is undermined to a great 

 extent with their cells. The red-capped and 

 hooded fly-catcher t, the barbudost (the barbets)§, 

 little sparrow-hawks II, the rusty red or spotted 

 cabore (Brazilian owl)5F, bask on the shrubs during 

 e heat of noon, and watch, concealed among the 

 branches, for the small birds and insects which fly 

 by ; the tinamus walks slowly among the pine- 

 apple plants, the enapupds and nambus in the gra&s** ; 

 single toucans ft seeking berries, hop among the 

 branches ; the purple tanagers XX follow each other 

 in amorous pursuit from tree to tree ; the caraca- 

 m § § and the caracari flying about the roads quite 



* Trochilus superciliosus, albus, maculatus, Mangoeus, mel- 

 livorus, viridis, forficatus. 



•j- Muscicapa coronata, Eremita nob. 



J The Portuguese names in the text are printed in Italics. 



§ Bucco Tamatia L., fuscus Lath., Barbican Tem, 



II Falco Sparverius, aurantius. 



<[j Strix ferruginea, palustris. 



** Tinamus brasiliensis, variegatus, &c. 



f f Ramphastos dicolorus. 



W Tanagra Jacapa. 



§ § Falco brasiliensis, Polyborus vulgaris Veill. 



